The methodology behind the numbers
Every number EximAgent publishes traces back to one internal benchmark: 180 companies, three repeated runs, company websites hidden from the agents — so the results measure the indexed data layer, not an agent's ability to browse. This page shows the same data split by model, with nothing averaged away.
Two coding agents — Claude and Codex — each ran the identical buyer-discovery task with and without the EximAgent CLI, alongside a modeled 12-minute-per-lead manual baseline.
Results per trusted lead
Bars scale within each metric; blue lanes run with EximAgent.
Cost
Up to 6.3× cheaper than the same agent working alone.
- Claude + EximAgent
- $1.31
- Codex + EximAgent
- $1.58
- Codex alone
- $2.76
- Claude alone
- $8.24
- Human (manual)
- $5.12
Time
Every EximAgent lane stays under 25 seconds per lead.
- Claude + EximAgent
- 19s
- Codex + EximAgent
- 25s
- Codex alone
- 28s
- Claude alone
- 110s
- Human (manual)
- 12 min
Trust-pass rate
540 of 540 Claude + EximAgent leads passed the trust check.
- Claude + EximAgent
- 100%
- Codex + EximAgent
- 92.2%
- Codex alone
- 84.8%
- Claude alone
- 26.7%
- Human (manual)
- —
Full results
| Lane | Cost per trusted lead | Time per trusted lead | Trust-pass rate | Leads evaluated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude + EximAgent | $1.31 | 19s | 100% | 540 |
| Codex + EximAgent | $1.58 | 25s | 92.2% | 550 |
| Codex alone | $2.76 | 28s | 84.8% | 540 |
| Claude alone | $8.24 | 110s | 26.7% | 531 |
| Human (manual) | $5.12 | 12 min | — | modeled |
What it costs as batches grow
Accumulated cost and wall clock for a whole batch, averaged across the four modeled labor markets. The ratios hold from 10 companies to 100.
A 100-company batch: 37 minutes instead of 20 hours, $145 instead of $512.
Accumulated cost ($) · 100 companies
Accumulated time (minutes) · 100 companies
| Batch | EximAgent | Independent AI | Manual |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 companies | $14 · 4 min | $55 · 12 min | $51 · 2 hrs |
| 20 companies | $29 · 7 min | $110 · 23 min | $102 · 4 hrs |
| 50 companies | $72 · 18 min | $275 · 58 min | $256 · 10 hrs |
| 100 companies | $145 · 37 min | $550 · ~2 hrs | $512 · 20 hrs |
Where the time goes
Per-company wall clock by step. The indexed corpus collapses discovery from 43.6 seconds of live crawling to 1.1 seconds — analysis time barely moves.
Codex + EximAgent
32sDiscovery + crawl: 1.1s · Analyze / think: 30.9s
Codex alone
92.9sDiscovery + crawl: 43.6s · Analyze / think: 49.3s
Step timing was instrumented on the Codex lanes; the Claude lanes were not step-instrumented in this run.
Cost sensitivity by labor market
Agent costs are the same everywhere — what changes is the human time each lane consumes, priced at four modeled wage levels. High-wage markets widen the dollar gap; in Vietnam the dollar gap compresses, but the speed gap doesn't move.
| Labor market | Claude + EximAgent | Codex + EximAgent | Codex alone | Claude alone | Human (manual) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | $0.18 | $0.30 | $0.47 | $1.19 | $0.60 |
| Europe | $1.00 | $1.23 | $2.14 | $6.31 | $3.89 |
| United States | $1.63 | $1.94 | $3.41 | $10.23 | $6.40 |
| US, senior researcher | $2.43 | $2.85 | $5.03 | $15.21 | $9.60 |
Cost per trusted lead. Time per lead is market-invariant (19s–110s for the agent lanes, 12 min manual). Europe converts at ~1 EUR = 1.08 USD.
Benchmark run mid-2026 against the production corpus. Numbers on the landing page are the averages of the two EximAgent lanes and the two solo lanes shown here, scaled to 1,000 leads.